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The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console was first packaged as the Family Computer (Famicom) in Japan. Its best-selling game is Super Mario Bros. , first released in Japan on September 13, 1985, with sales of more than 40 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling video game of all time .
Nintendo later released the Famicom Disk System (FDS) in Japan in 1986, intending to have developers distribute all future games on proprietary 2.8-inch (7.1 cm) floppy disks to avoid the cost and size limitations of cartridges; however, developers began re-releasing FDS games on cartridges as advancements in cartridge technology made them ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Nintendo Entertainment System games. It includes titles that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Video games in this category have been released exclusively on the Nintendo Entertainment System /Nintendo Family Computer console.
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It helped revitalise the American gaming industry following the video game crash of 1983, [e] and pioneered a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers to produce and distribute games. [12] The NES features several influential games, including Super Mario Bros. (1985), The Legend of Zelda (1986), Metroid (1986) and Mega ...
NES Classic Edition [a] [b] is a dedicated home video game console by Nintendo, that emulates the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Family Computer (Famicom). Originally launched on November 10, 2016, the console aesthetically is a miniature replica of the NES, and it includes a static library of 30 built-in games from the licensed NES library, supporting save states for all of them.
A retail edition consisting of both games, titled NES Remix Pack, [d] was released on April 24, 2014, in Japan [2] and December 5 in North America. Another title, Ultimate NES Remix [ e ] for Nintendo 3DS , was released on November 7–8, 2014 in Europe and Australia, December 5 in North America and August 27, 2015, in Japan.
At the time, the game cost approximately US$50 (equivalent to about $123 in 2023) at retail and the magazine's subscription fee was only $20. [51] The giveaway attracted nearly 500,000 new magazine subscribers, and many more renewed subscriptions just to get the game.